Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume IX, Issue 26, 23 December 1885, Page 221

Horse- and Cattle-Stealing.

Supposed stolen during the night of the Ist instant, from a paddock at St. Albans, Christchurch, a black gelding, aged, about 16 hands high, branded X on near shoulder, a halt in hind legs ; the property of John Russell; value £lO. Identifiable.

Supposed stolen about the 12th ultimo, at Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, a bay horse, hack-breed, aged, 15£ hands high, saddle-marked, branded TA on near shoulder, value £2O; and a mouse-coloured horse, pony-breed, seven years old, 14 hands high, unbranded, value £l3; the property of F. de C. Malet. Identifiable.

Stolen between 11 p.m. on the 10th and 5.30 a.m. on the lltli instant, from a stable at Ponsonby Road, Auckland, a bay mare with black points, four years old, 14 hands high, switch tail, space for bridle cut out of mane, in fair condition, newly shod; the property of Robert Gray; value £lO. Identifiable. Suspicion attached to Frederick Harris, alias Johnston, about twenty years of age, 5 feet 4 inches high, medium build, fair hair and complexion, no hair on face; usually wears grey-tweed suit. He is supposed to have gone to Drury or Hawke’s Bay.

(See Police Gazette, 1885, page 195.)

The chestnut gelding, the property of William F. Phillips, supposed stolen from Awahuri Road, Feilding, has been recovered.